By Elliot Foster
Dalton Smith has had his next fight date confirmed.
The Sheffield fighter has been a pro just a matter of months and has now been added to a pay-per-view undercard.
Smith, a former Team GB starlet, made his professional debut back in May in Nottingham and then went 2-0 at the O2 Arena in London last month on the same card as Dillian Whyte’s heavyweight victory over Oscar Rivas.
The 22-year-old, whose ring moniker is ‘Never Give Up On Life’, trains with his father Grant –– who also looks after super-flyweight IBF Inter-Continental champion Sunny Edwards and his brother, WBC champion at flyweight, Charlie Edwards –– and will be deep in camp preparing for his next assignment.
Smith has been confirmed as an addition to the supporting cast of Luke Campbell’s mammoth showdown against Vasyl Lomachenko.
Olympic gold medallist Campbell –– whose fellow Hull fighter Connor Coghill has also been added to the bill –– will challenge the Ukrainian two-time Olympic champion for his WBA and WBO world lightweight titles at the O2 Arena in London on August 31, with the vacant WBC belt and Ring Magazine bauble also at stake, exclusively live on Sky Sports Box Office in the UK, ESPN+ Stateside and DAZN globally.
Savannah Marshall will make her Matchroom debut on the card having recently inked a promotional deal with Eddie Hearn, while there is also action for Joshua Buatsi.
The Ghanaian-born Croydon man makes another defence of his WBA International light-heavyweight title against America’s Ryan Forde and Joe Cordina puts his British and Commonwealth lightweight titles on the line against his fellow Welshman Gavin Gwynne.
The aforementioned Charlie Edwards returns to the ring in a defence of his world title on the bill against his mandatory challenger Julio Cesar Martinez and Hughie Fury –– who also recently signed with Hearn and Matchroom –– will come up against former WBC Silver heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin whose last fight was a seventh-round stoppage defeat to now-former WBA Super, IBF, IBO and WBO world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff last September.
Potential further additions to the undercard of Lomachenko vs. Campbell will be revealed in due course.